Comparison with 1995

Price rises: you work extra long hours for this

"Everything used to be better" or "everything is getting more and more expensive" - phrases that were particularly easy to say after Austria joined the EU in 1995. But is this really true? Was it possible to afford more in the past than it is today? Krone+ took a look at how long you have to work for various products.

"Joining the EU won't make anything more expensive", said many politicians in 1994 before the referendum in favor of membership of the European Union. Did they keep the promises they made back then? Krone+ has looked at how the prices of various products and services have changed over the past 29 years. And, above all, how long you had to work for them then and now.